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TIL that taxidermists use beetles to clean bones for skeletal displays.

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R7xOw TIL The law, Section 1498, gives the government the right to override any pharmaceutical patent at any time as long as the company receives “reasonable compensation.”
WE8 TIL ice can be one of 15 different solid phases
Y7aQx TIL - That during Apartheid in South Africa you were forbidden to have relations with someone of another race. The Boers developed the "Pencil Test"; if a pencil would stay in your hair when pushed in you were declared as "black" and could only have relations with other "blacks".
GYB1G TIL there was an attack on the United States Capitol building in 1954 by Puerto Rican nationalists that resulted in 5 congressmen being shot
ZmkQ TIL that in American Sign Language, the sign for milk is pretending to squeeze an udder, and the sign for pasteurised milk is to pretend to squeeze an udder while it moves “past-your-eyes”